Steph Cha discusses her new novel “Your House Will Pay,” the LA Riots, the Korean American Angeleno community, her 3,600 Yelp reviews, and pushing back against gatekeepers in publishing.
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High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.
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Home Cooking: A Reading List
“In the following essays, writers interrogate the complicated pasts of place through food, express nostalgia for long-gone homes, and find belonging by sharing meals.”
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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Here’s a List of Longreads about Love for You
Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories on love in its many-splendored guises.
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But You Look Fine: A Reading List About Disabilities, Accommodations, and School
Jacqueline Alnes brings us six stories on disability and discrimination in higher education.
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Someone Called Mother
Their mothers were secrets, right up until their deaths.
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Stories to Read in 2019
A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
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Becoming Family
Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.
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We Are All We Have
While caring for her mother post-surgery and her grandmother during her final days, Megan Stielstra wonders who’s really taking care of who.
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This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
